THE TERRACE SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 7

THE TERRACE SCHOOL

LARGER PLAYGROUND URGENTLY NEEDED. A meeting of residents interested in Iho Terrace School was held in St. Andrew's Hall last evening to consider the Question of obtaining ah enlftiged playground for tho school. Mr. Thomson, chairman of the School Committee, presided, and explained that recently the Minister of Education had been approached by Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., with « request that the Minister would receive a deputation on behalf of the parents of tho school. The Minister had expressed himself as being' sympathetically disiwsed towards the demands for a larger playing area, but asked that in lieu of a deputation tho request of the committoe should bo conveydd in writing. Mr. D. E. Leslie, headmaster, said tiiat tho avorago roll number at the Terrace School was 632, while tho total area of the three-small plnying-grounds- was less than one-fifth of an acre, equivalent to U square feet to each pupil, far, less than was provided per child indoors in tho most progressive countries of the world. To sny that other Wellington schools were similarly handicapped was no argument m favour of leaving the position in its present state. Mr. von Haast movod, and Mr. J. Darling seconded:—"That this meeting respectfully urges upon Mm Minister of Education tho immediato necessity of acquiring grounds adjoining the Terrace School for tho purnn-m of extending the plnygrounds."

Pho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) Assured tho meeting of his earnest support, nnd the motion was cairicd. /